Sectarianism, De-Sectarianization and Regional Politics in the Middle East

Following the Arab Uprisings, new ways of understanding sectarianism and sect-based differences emerged. But these perspectives, while useful, reduced sectarian identities to a consequence of either primordial tensions or instrumentalised identities. While more recently ''third way'' approaches addressed the problems with these two positions, the complexity of secatarian identities within and acro...